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From: zed@mdbs.uucp (Bill Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: EFLOP architectures: when and for how much?
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.190020.15214@mdbs.uucp>
Date: 2 Oct 90 19:00:20 GMT
Organization: mdbs, Inc.
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When was (or will) machines with the following performance be available?  
The main parameters I am interested in is the cost for the initial 
commercial release for a machine with a given number of available (as 
opposed to theoretical) floating point operations per second.

					Date:			Cost:
Mega FLOP  --  10^6  (MFLOP)    
Giga FLOP  --  10^9  (GFLOP)
Tera FLOP  --  10^12 (TFLOP)
Peta FLOP  --  10^15 (PFLOP)
Exa  FLOP  --  10^18 (EFLOP)

When in this history will a programming model be available that will be 
appropriate for solving problems in any part of this entire 10^12 speed 
range and will port programs to the next higher level without serious loss of
efficiency?

William W. Smith
sawmill!mdbs!zed
[not necessarily my employer's opinions]